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Having already shaken up the music industry, Spotify filed a prospectus to list its shares on the New York Stock Exchange on Wednesday, making it one of the most anticipated technology sector stockmarket debuts in years and a signal of the streaming market reaching its maturity as it continued to breathe life into a floundering music industry.

The US Supreme Court dealt a blow to the Trump administration on Monday as it declined to take up a lawsuit concerning the citizenship status of the children of illegal immigrants, known as 'dreamers'.

A Russian and Chinese joint investment fund, working in conjunction with several major Russian banks, has made moves to take part in the much awaited Saudi Aramco initial public offering, according to a sovereign Russian investment fund head.

Saudi Aramco, the Dhahran-based petroleum and natural gas company which had recently been forced to deny plans that it was abandoning its $2tn flotation of 5% of the company, received a shot in the arm on Friday after a royal decree converted the firm into a joint stock company, allowing it to expand its shareholder base beyond the Saudi Arabian government.

Irish waste-to-energy specialist EQTEC resumed trading on AIM on Thursday with a new-look board of directors after it completed the reverse takeover of a fellow subsidiary of its Spanish parent company.

Israeli mining company Shefa Yamim became the 100th company to float on the London Stock Exchange in 2017 on Monday, marking the first time the barrier had been broken in three years on the back of heightened international interest and an increased level of investment fund listings.

OnTheMarket, the estate agent-backed property website, says it it ready to float on the AIM section of the London Stock Exchange in order to "challenge the dominance of Rightmove and Zoopla" with a big new marketing campaign.

Sabre Insurance released details of its initial public offering (IPO) on Thursday, with founder Angus Ball set to collect nearly £30m for his 20% shareholding in the motor insurer in what had been referred to as one of 2017's biggest London listings.

It felt like a revolution. They came from all over the country and all walks of life. Young and old, opposition activists and party apparatchiks, white farmers and black war veterans, housewives and their maids. For years many of them had been on opposing sides, but yesterday they had one common objective. "Mugabe must go!" read the banners as thousands of Zimbabweans filled the streets of Harare draped in their red, yellow, green and black flag, playing music, dancing and hugging strangers.